Sissix Big Shot

bOOK dESTASH

Humbug!

China Query

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Rebs Stuff :)

All of which Fred is grateful for :) (Including the naughty bits he's not photographed.)

Bette Davis

purpotedly said:

"On the death of Joan Crawford
'My mother told me never to speak badly of the dead. She's dead....Good" ".

Oh how I can so relate to that one right now in so many different ways. One of the chapters of my life has come to a close in such a fulfilling and final way. The downside though is that there's a lot of icky stuff that's around for a while but that will pass and then the rapture (lol) can begin.

I'm now the owner

of a Hague Linker. Given to me by friend at my local knitting group as she wanted the space. I've been gaining some space as I've been having a good declutter of both belongings and mental stuff, the former is of financial benefit unlike the latter.

Pics will follow before Christmas.

2011 Resolutions

Well here they are and I wonder how long they'll be kept!

NUMBER ONE
Seriously declutter both stash and non-stash. As a result of this now have (already) two black sacks to go to local knitting group for stash swap night, 4 plastic storage crates and 7 cardboard archive boxes to go on e-bay.

NUMBER TWO
Have signed up for “11 shawls in 2011”. I did sign up for 10 in 2010 but fell by the wayside due to various issues. The rules of the game is that I have to knit 11 shawls between 11.00pm on 31 December 2010 and 11.00pm on 31 December 2011 (it’s based on European time) and 9 have to have a minimum of 250 metres (273 yards) and 2 500 metres (546 yards). One is Sharon Miller's project 4 christening shawl in Heirloom Knitting which is a commission by my aunt for her first great-grandchild.

NUMBER THREE
Get my sewing machine into proper action and get to grips with patchwork. I’ve a number of ideas running in my head that I really want to give a go.

NUMBER FOUR
Complete all outstanding WIPs. Nothing major here. Just a pair of gloves, pair of socks, Transformers hat, and a bedspread.

NUMBER FIVE
Lose c. 4 stone. Am going to be walking around 10 miles several times a week. It involves going via Coldspring Mill so there may be a little addition or two depending how 1 above is going ;-)

Cat To Take Away

This year's poor effort

was made with rice flour as there's several girlies at knitting group who can't eat wheat flour. I only got chance to make the marzipan and icing and decorating today so very minimal but at least the royal icing won't crack many teeth lol

Today

I was talking to you at Harrogate. Can you please drop me a PM ;-)

Departure Surf

A caller